The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
A GIRL OF NERVE.
Athletic Sports and How to Dress for
Them

!
about merrily in the chop of an East river
tide. 1t was high noon and the long double
paddle glanced in the sunshine as the self
possessed sailor picked her way through
| the procession of tugs, running under the
bridge and heading for the battery. Shades
of her grandmother That good dame had
nerves, but this little lady had nerve.
Good sirs and ladies fair, the girl OF the
day has muscles. EIayhap she can stir to-
gether pudding or sew up seam. Per
haps she reads Browning, perhaps she IS a
metaphysician, or theosopbist-Heaven
help her-not unlikely she hirts bit or
coquettes, but her dainty wrists are set with
springs of steel
One day couple of weeks ago there was
a bicycle seen leaning against little stone
church uptown A tricycle. stood by its side
and fifteen more bicycles were stacked on
the church green. The owners of the vehi-
cles were attending the marriageof wheel
man and wheel-woman INSIDE
Presently ont came the bride and
| groom, both in fresh club colors and
wheeled away on their marriage trip for a
two hundred miles spin. 1t would have
| looked more sociabie to the ordinary eye if
they had ridden tandem, but the time may
come in the course of their partnership when
their steeds will suit each others PAGES better
| than now.
he UlIcycie VIII Dc T1IleD tillS SttiiAiiCi
much more extensively by women than has
been the case in any year before. For one
thing the machine is an expensive folble
| and it has taken it some time to make Its
| way 1t is heavier than the bicycle, too,
| ana little unfair to the weaker sex III
handicapping it at the start in point OF
| speed. In spite Of these disadvantages, how
evcr-and they are not nearly SO noticeable
! as i'll the numbering things that went by the
same name half dozen years aGo-the
tricycle., and especially the improved tandem
| that allows husband and wife or lover and
lass to ride together is gaining ground
rapidly, and Mr.. and Mrs. Pencil will find
many ilnitators in their vacation trips on
| the wheel
Tricycling is an exercise that calls for a
special dress Nobody who has been through
the dusty and oily experiences of wheel he
will think of disputing that fact. The
gown worn by the experienced is always Of
a medium weight wooden material, and in
ninety-nine cases ont OF q hundred is quiet
| and unconspicuous III color. English women
| choose almost without execution a flannel
or merino combination of ordinary walking
| length with OVelureSS made as SIMPLY d.
possible, loose trousers to match the dress
| III color, black WOODEN stockings, Norfolk
jacket, straw hat, 4 club ribbon and free
and substantial walking boot. A'nerican
women as a rule, have not yet adapted TIE
trousers, but wear ii skirt Of slghuy dnfei-
ent cut. The dress used by the women riders
III Central Park this spring shows a skirt
! without back CrapCTy, but ornamental as
the wearer's fancy chooses in front. For
| length it is like tbs usual pro
menade dress, but has slope of
about three inches behind to pre-
vent lifting by the saddle at the back. For
head gear one should choose small light
weight cap of the same color as the dress, or
.ls,4 i l,,lV.
Kid gloves are out of order. Silk and linen
or Isle thread are the only things allowed on
the wheel For underwear the same rules
that govern the boating dress hold; flannel
next the skin, no corset or cllnohne and as
few skirts as may be.
Canoeing has not grown to be favorite
sport with women as yet, but, like tricycl-
ing, its day is yet to come The successor OF
the birch bark is toy 50 dainty and wltGal
an instrument 50 true that it is impossible
to make its acquaintance without falling
PROSTATE before it's charms. Girls at the
summer resorts not infrequently show them
selves good oarswouen, but if they knew
the bewitchnents Of the paddle they would
not fash themselves long with the oar. The
tandem canoe that enables the skipper to
ship a stout young man for the voyage is
the only variety in which woman often
trusts herself in the salt water tides about
New York, but Oh a smaller river than the
f!udso1, or hv a bake side the ter-pound
"bucktails'' that the Adirondack trappers
sOmeU.lnes employ and thai skim over
the water almost of their own volition are
the ideal vessels for a solitary maidenly
cruise.
There are always women-good sailors
some of them--at the annual canoe meets at
the Thousand Islands, and the canOeists OF
New York are building this spring an ex-
tension for feminine use to their clubhouse.
Canoeing is an active sport OF a lazy one, as
You choose to make it; and whether my lady
lies on a cushion in the bottom of the craft
and reads novel in the shadow of the sail
or whether she loves the grip of the
paddle too well to resign it altogether tC
masculine hands, q boating gown is, OF
ought to be, a sine qua non OF her summer
enjoyment.
The canoeing dress and yachting gown for
practical purposes are one. Ability to stand
water and disposition to keep themselves
out of the way are the essentials Of both.
Miss Britannia is apt to- be a little more sen
-ible in some ways than Hiss Columbia
that Is to say, she weighs the respective re
wards of comfort and appearances. and ii
the odds are not too great, comfort carries
the day. In word, Miss Britannia gos
aboard in blouse or loose Jacket. straight
skirts and short ones, too. Miss Columbia
has quick eye to tine beauties of a trim
waist and graceful draperies, and takes her
comfort out in looking well. The English
way is the better one, ii seems to ME, mas
much as the gowns lnay be just as pretty.
For material flannel is better for fresh
water than salt. There is nothing that viii
stand dash of the brine without growing
stiff, discolored and uncomfortable, except
fine close serge that one can only hit on now
and then For color, two combinations will
reign this year. The iinmenorial blue, not
trimmed with the equally immemorial white
braid but embroidered with stout white
silk cord, and Il darl. brown with tint OF
red in it, frightened with streaming ribbons
OF red
When tennis was introduced into thi.
country a dozen years ago it was seized
upon at once as the pretty girls own game.
1t is a pretty pastime and becoming to both
sexes ankle Men nave chance 10 air Their
rare coquetries and their oittimes superb
physical development; girls TO show as in nc
other way their delicate figures, graceful
ways and rosy laughing faces. Tennis gowns
have undergone few changes this spring.
White q now. rs ever, the iaVolIte color
One can take more solid comfort, though, in
a tam color dust or eciu an mako n'ettiel
poSes--if Shat is any obiect-on Il & as
well. Artistic combinations of blu S, !eens
reds and browns suggest themselves eadily
enough to the ingenious girls ina ,inatior
and rebound TO her credit in September as
well as June.